OT. Anyone believe in spirits? I need some advise here.

Please don't think I am crazy.† I am a little nervous and I don't know how to handle this situation.† I think my daughter sees spirits (or ghosts, or whathaveyou).† A little background before I tell you what happened -†my husband's father passed away when we were in high school (13 yrs ago, when we 1st started dating).† His name was Steven - and I will use the last name Brown b/c I don't want to use our real last name.† So let's call my FIL Steven Brown.

My daughter has been having night terrors.† She wakes up screaming and too afraid to even stand up.† I come and get her, and she ends up sleeping with us.† This is not every night, but a good number of times this has happened.† She won't tell me why she is crying.

Moving on - about a week ago she has been yelling at a boy in the tree†outside her bedroom window.† She use to call him David (her cousin's name) - and she would yell "NO David, out of tree! You will fall!"† She yells this over and over.

So then on Sunday we were eating breakfast and she says, "Mom, what is boy's name?" --- and I said, what boy?† a boy on tv? your brother?† She says, "no, the boy, what is boy's name?"† I ignored her b/c I didn't know what to say.† I now assume this "boy" is who she was referring to as David (in the tree).

And this leads to yesterday.† Yesterday we were driving to get gas and I finally ask her if there is a boy at home.† She says "yes".† I said, ok, what does he look like?† She says, "yellow hair".† I say huh... does he have a name?† She says "yes".† I ask her what it is.† She says "Steven Brown, he is nice".

WTF do I do now?† I have never mentioned my husband's dad to her - for all she knows she only has one grandfather (my dad).† My husband thinks it is all coincidental.† Should I ask more questions?† Leave it alone?† Could this be real or am I reading WAY too much into all of this?

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I would just keep an eye on her and make sure shes not getting scared. you can take to "him" as well. Ask him to leave and not scare or talk to your daughter. From what ive seen ( i believe and watch a lot of ghost shows) they listen. say watch over her but dont communicate...

I llost 8 aunts and uncles btwn 9/09-5/10. my uncle was @ my babyshower, 2wks later he found out liver cancer. i cleaned the house and made him dinner and brought him groceries. march came and it was bad. he moved in with my cousin i went to see him for the final time 4/23 and say my good byes, my parents, his sons were all staying at my cousins. as Im walking to the car i get a call from my sister that they just found my aunt dead in her bed. The next day 4/24 ds 1st birthday, my uncle passes that night. we had 2 funerals @ once and may 4th my down syn. aunt passed away. Can I just tell you that she looked @ peace and on my word you couldnt tell that she was downs.... she looked absolutely normal...¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† anywho. I have my uncles coffee cup, my cousin gave it to me after the funeral. He had the same coffee cup since 1984 and it was a fight before he was even ill on which cousin was going to get the cup.....¬† It is my pride and joy, I look at it and think about him each day. me and "god" arent really on good terms right now.

We have had a lot of paranormal activity since the cup came into the house. I would say that it was wishfull thinking on my part, wanting to keep him alive and with me..... but everyone that comes here feels something, or sees something. ds has now started to point to the corner of the bedrm and talk a mile a min, hes behind on speech i dont understand anything he says... he wont sleep with out a night light we always have the baby monitor on. you would be surprised....

I firmly believe that my grandmother follows me wherever i live.¬† I never thought anything of it until my odd was about 3.¬† She had a "friend" that¬†I thought was just her imagination.¬† When her and I talked about her friend she explained to me that she had red hair and blue eyes.¬† At this time she knew no one with red hair.¬† When we were talking more she told me that her friends name was Elaine.¬† That happens to be my grandmas name and my grandma had red hair and blue eyes.¬† She also went on to tell me that her friend always has red lipstick with her, my grandma always had redlipstick as well.¬†

My now almost 5 year old started seeing and playing with with the friend as well, problem is my 5 year old is a little more sensitive to certain things.¬† She got to the point that she wouldn't sleep.¬† So I sat one night when the girls were in bed and talked to grandma, I told her that I know she loves us all and wants to be with us but that she was making my job as mom hard.¬† I told her that I didn't want her to leave us but if she could be there and not let them see her I would appreciate it.¬† Now they don't play with their friend, but I know she is still there.

I think there's a simpler explation.¬† Lots of kids have imaginary friends and the name is probably something she overheard at some point.¬† Its also normal for them to start to have scary dreams at this point.

Funny story, I kinda freaked out when my daughter told me, "Look, Mama, a boy." and pointed into our living roon.¬† I asked where and she kept point into our empty living and waving.¬† THEN,¬†I realized she was pointing at a boy outside the window!¬† HAHAHA!

You are definitely not crazy. Sounds like your daughter has a gift. If this continues as she gets older it might not hurt to get her some help to understand and to learn how to deal with this so she feels comfortable with her ability to see spirits. I saw a show on A&E called psychic kids it's pretty good. If your I'n to those kind of shows.

I do not believe in ghosts or anything paranormal, but my mom believes very much in this stuff. Anyways...there is a picture in my mom's house that one of her patients (she use to be a medical asst.) painted for her. He passed away a few years later, but my mom kept the painting hung up. It's a really pretty snowy picture with a cottage in the background. My son, who at the time was 2, would wave to the picture and said he was saying hi to David, which was her patients name. Then sometimes he would cry and say that David was scaring him or making a scary face in the picture. We have no idea what he was seeing. It was crazy and still is to think about. Now my son is 11 and will NOT go into the living room that has this picture hanging up, he says he just does not like it.

Also, my brother who is 31¬†went in to have ACL surgery and he says he remebers while he was in surgery my grandma, who he was very very close to and she passed back in 2005, being there and telling him it will be okay. When he woke up from surgery he said he could feel her tugging on his toes telling him its time to wake up. He said he knows for a fact that she was there. He says he has been woken up from her many times this way. He gets very teary eyed when it happens because he feels that it is real.